Concerning 'Method To'
I'd like to see 'method to' is a grammatical phrase as in The method to learning a new language is the same, no matter what language it is. According to Oxford collocations dictionary, 'method' can be followed by of or for. So I should think the sentence is ungrammatical. Am I wrong?
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anonymous Am I wrong? No, and Oxford is also right, as usual. But you do see "method to".
- anonymous Am I wrong?
- No, and Oxford is also right, as usual.
- But you do see "method to".
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anonymousAm I wrong?
No, and Oxford is also right, as usual. But you do see "method to". A common rendering of Polonius's famous comment "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't" is "There is method to his madness."
0"method to" is much less common than the other collocations you mention. It is used, notably, in the expression "(there is a) method to one's madness". I would say it works best in this kind of situation, when one is stating that a method exists or should exist, e.g. "There's a method to learning a language -- you can't just do it haphazardly" would be OK. The use in your sentence seems unexpe
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